Iconology

Japanese: イコノロジー(英語表記)iconology
Iconology
It is translated as iconography. Like iconography, it originated from a compound word of eikon (image) and logos (word) (Plato's Phaedrus), and in the Renaissance it developed into an attempt to interpret and systematize the symbolic meanings of ancient gods and allegorical images (C. Ripa's Iconologia, 1593). The term was revived by E. Panofsky. While the content of iconography is in opposition to the form of the work, a more essential understanding is said to progress to grasping and interpreting the worldview that is the basis of the work, combined with an intuitive recognition of the form. This was greatly influenced by E. Cassirer's "philosophy of symbolic form," which is an important aspect of today's art history, and is currently being developed into a theory of semantics of images in general (semiology). Architectural iconography (R. Krautheimer) is also being carried out, which questions the meaning of not only images but also architecture from its form and function. In Japan and the Orient, there has been a long-standing tradition of iconography (→Buddhist iconography).

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Japanese:
図像解釈学と訳される。イコノグラフィーと同じくエイコン (像) とロゴス (言葉) の合成語 (プラトンの『パイドロス』) に発し,ルネサンスには古代以来の神像や寓意像などの象徴的意味を解釈,体系化する試みに進んだ (C.リパの『イコノロギア』,1593) 。この語は E.パノフスキーにより復活させられた。イコノグラフィーの内容が作品の形式と対立するのに対し,より本質的了解は,形式に対する直観的認識と相まって,作品の根底をなす世界観の把握,解釈に進むとされる。そこには E.カッシーラーの唱えた「象徴形式の哲学」が大きく影響し,今日の美術史学の重要な一側面をなすとともに,さらに現在では形象一般の意味論 (セミオロジー) にと発展させられつつある。図像のみならず,建築の形態と機能からその意味を問う建築図像学 (R.クラウトハイマー) も行われている。日本,東洋についても図像学 (→仏教図像学 ) のような伝統が古来からある。

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